The Drawing Room

In 1920's post-revolution Mexico, the country is rebuilding and stabilising itself after ousting authoritarian rule and giving way to the so-called ‘Mexican Renaissance’.

The famous and gruelling 24-hour Le Mans car race has drivers working around the clock, taking turns to push their machines in the ultimate test of endurance and continuity.

Charlie Chan is about to attempt the same on the piano, find out how they plan to do with a little help from some friends and a counterpart called... chAI.

Humans have long looked to the animal world to help explain our own. Think George Orwell's Animal Farm; a mirror of our own complexity with simple and deeply sardonic animal metaphors.

Slavic folklore and storytelling traditions also echo this dark humour and anthropomorphism — a new performance looks at human history and migration through the lens of a chicken — a character almost never cast as a hero.

Verdi claimed Rigoletto was his best opera, saying he would never write any better.

With themes of greed, betrayal, revenge and misogyny - it’s a much-loved Opera and one of the most popular of all time.

Soprano Stacey Alleaume discusses her role as Gilda in Opera Australia’s Rigoletto.

In Europe, around 1780 there was a bold and wild new idea in popular music which has shaped the concerts you see to this very day. Up until then, orchestras were background music for entertaining in small rooms in private homes salons while everyone tittered, japed and drank.

Along came Joseph Haydn, who wrote music for grander spaces, where a larger orchestra was the main event, in turn, inspiring a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to pen a rapid-fire flurry of ‘Joyous’ and ‘energising’ symphonies all within a five-year period. 

They were the first Australian sports team to ever visit North Korea, they were also the first side to pose nude for a calendar and they're the first Australian team – male or female – to reach the quarter finals of a FIFA World Cup, not once but three times. 

This team is the Matildas.

Their journey to global success hasn't been easy. Like women's football around the world, male football associations denied their existence for decades. 

Restless Dance Theatre's latest show is ‘Exposed'. It explores the way we deal with our vulnerabilities and how we react when we are challenged.

Artistic Director Michelle Ryan joins us to discuss the dance company's mission and methods for bringing the concept to life.

Whatever Fatherhood is, it’s not what it used to be. And probably not what it will be in the future. In fact, it largely mirrors what it is to be a man itself. And for some men, the inability to talk about these two factors, we know, leads to much higher rates of suicide. 

When Liam Budge, aka “Creswick” became a father in 2018 it was a profound transition and source of creative inspiration. In his first multi-disciplinary live performance, he takes the real experiences of men and combines them with song. 

In Pormpuraaw Western Cape York, Far North Queensland, we see a tropical landscape - crystal clear waters, green mangroves and hot sun. A picture of paradise. But in the deep north - the communities are small, remote, and almost impenetrable. When the law breaks, nobody is around to hear it.

The documentary The Cape investigates the life and law of the fisherman, the true story of two family clans- the Gaters, and the Wards - and the disappearance of a father and son in 2003.

Director, Christoffer Guldbrandsen speaks with Andy about the attraction of the politician for a documentary maker and the man he found behind Trump.